Chicago White Sox

The forum voted correctly as Steverson & Sparks are both gone. Capra was the only other person with a ton of votes, but he will be staying.

Agreed, I think Wheeler’s floor is 4/$80M. Eovaldi got 4/$68M last offseason and Wheeler is a much more proven commodity. Still a price I’d be willing to pay.

I love most of this, but your Nimmo package is way too light.

Guys do have bad years for all sorts of reasons. He’s at an age that you’d likely expect a return to form next year. No guarantees obviously, but I’d still take on his contract right now if the Padres were willing to unload for nothing.

Just because he underperformed this year does not mean he’ll underperform going forward. You are totally jumping the gun here.

I love me some Gardner Minshew.

I really don’t think we’ll be signing three relievers. Colome, Herrera, Bummer, & Fry are locks, while Cordero & Marshall will likely get spots as well, at least to start the season. I think they add one established high-leverage guy and go with some spring training invites to push Cordero & Marshall. Hamilton and some other young should also be in the mix.

Pretty much the nail in the coffin. Huge win today.

In all my years here, I don’t recall a single poster who could single handedly bring down the quality of the board this much. Like even Greg’s insanity results in a good chuckle once in a while. You’d think the non-stop whining would get tiring, but alas he keeps on chugging.

I feel bad for whoever sits next to you in the office. The Bears are up 16 against a good Vikings team and all you can do is repeat ad nauseam how bad Mitch is. Like my god, do you ever shut up?

I bet Ricky will cite all these meaningless late September wins in his year-end review!!

So fucking stupid

Trade for Eli?

?...this Cooper rumor sounds too good to be true, but he’s got to be close to retirement. I know next to nothing about Menechino so not sure if that would be good or bad.

Wheeler is easily worth forfeiting a second pick IMO.

Bumgarner is not a whale...like not even fucking close man. Wheeler is so much better than him it’s not even funny and he’s not a whale. Either way, anyone but Cole & Rendon should be on the table. Strasburg is probably a long-shot, but that has to do more with how his agent will drag out the process and our need to address pitching right out the gate.

Yes I did, which is don’t count on us landing a whale. We will certainly add quality players via free agency even if their last names aren’t Cole or Rendon. Those of you suggesting otherwise are implying we will be rocking a ridiculously low payroll and that’s not happening.

Some of you live your lives according to Murphy’s Law and assume the worst will happen at all times.

Got to bat your worst hitter first because...reasons.

It’s absolute insanity that people think this.

Grandal, especially if we plan on retaining Abreu for multiple years.

I must have missed it, but what has Timmy attributed to Steverson? Other than Moncada, I’m not sure I’ve much proof Steverson has driven any of these changes. I have seen our manager say guys are zoning him out though, which is a significant red flag IMO.

There is plenty of free agent pitching available. Four of the top 14 starters in terms of fWAR will be free agents (Cole, Strasburg, Ryu, & Wheeler) plus other several other semi-interesting guys in Bumgarner (3.2), Odorizzi (4.3), Gibson (2.6), Hamels (2.5), and Alex Wood. IMO, there is zero reason to trade for pitching. The hitting class is very underwhelming after Rendon, Grandal, & JDM if he declines his option. A trade would be more justifiable there, but we don’t have a lot of expendable chips.

To me, this is very simple. Grandal is as good of a hitter as Castellanos, fits our lineup needs much better (lefty + elite OBP), and actually brings good defense at a positional of skill. Give me Yasmani any day of the week over Nicholas.

And what if we extend Abreu for two or three years? What’s your plan with Vaughn?